Single power supply for all on board experiments, including DC brush motor and stepper motor

Suitable for laboratory experiment works

The selling price is yet to be decided, it is the sales team call 🙂

Anyway, let’s take a look on the design.

The PIC microcontroller. Since PIC16F and PIC18F is pin to pin compatible (for 40-pin), this board utilize this features and uses a ZIF socket for PIC placement. To name a few famous model, PIC16F877A, PIC16F887, PIC18F4520, PIC18F4580, PIC18F4550, etc. The Crystal is also changeble, therefore it is flexible not only in choosing PIC model, you can also change the crystal speed to suit the experiment.

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If you notice, there is also a small crystal lying on the PCB surface, that’s 32.768KHz crystal. It is useful for timer interrupt for real time clock generation.

2×16 parallel LCD offers a good message display output, it can display any character you need such as instruction, number, value and even special symbol. With 2 digits of 7-segment display, user will learn the simple and complex method to display number.

Any input available? I think Keypad might be good to learn digital input that require multiplexing. PTK40A comes with 4×4 keypad which offers 16 key press input, from 0 to 9, A to D, * and #, very useful for security project such as door lock that require user to key in password.

Analog input is another great peripheral to learn as many sensor offer analog reading. PTK40A come with a analog input but with 3 choices of source. You can select the analog source from either external analog sensor (accelerometer, Gyro, Distance sensor, range finder, etc, these sensor are not included), on board variable resistor and LM35 temperature sensor; a jumper provide mechanism to select the source.

OK, I think that’s all for now 🙂 Hope you like the sharing of new born PIC training kit. Should be able to launch it end of Dec this year. A lot more to do, sample source code, User’s Manual, Handout for experiments, etc. This board is targeting Cytron PIC Microcontroller Workshop.

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